Saturday, October 16, 2004

Bride and prejudice

Shahrukh Khan is now of the cover of Time. Add that to Aishwariya Rai's appearance earlier (both in the list of Time's Asia's Most influential People') and you have a picture of the sorry state of the world today. We can only imagine 'what a wonderful world' it is when the people on the cover of time are Actors, Osama Bin Ladin and George W. Bush.

*yawn*

To add to her collection of rubbish movies, the lady in question, Aishwariya Rai, has released another movie that can be, at best, classified (and left to rot on a dusty shelf somewhere) as a romantic comedy, and at worst classified as a remake/butchering of the classic 'Pride and Prejudice', now with the sad title 'Bride and Prejudice'. I'm sure you can guess what the theme would be of said movie. Arranged marriage, strong-willed local beauty teaches seemingly arrogant 'Darcy' (who's American in this version instead of British) all about the 'backward' India and the values of family, love, life, beauty, trust, family, arranged marriages, yadda-yadda-yadda.

A random snatch of typically brilliant dialogue:

Miss Rai: "Bohot suna hai tumhaaray baaray main, Darcy..."
Darcy: "Kia aap meray saath dance karaingi? *insert firangi accent* Chakh day phatteh?!"

Oh yes, and let's not forget the 'snake dance', which Indian movie enthusiasts would remember from such classics as 'Nagin'.

Misha at Saturday, October 16, 2004

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